Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
1. Introduction.2. Chapter 1: 'Egotistic' Adaptations of King Lear: Intercultural Playwrights Haunted by Tradition.3. Chapter 2: Border-Crossing Chou Actors in Beckettian Jingju.4. Chapter 3: Expressionistic Chuanju: Ghosts and Scenography in Lady Macbeth.5. Audiences Freed from Illusion?: Brechtian Estrangement and Metatheatricality Displaced in Xiqu.6. Conclusion.
Synopsis
Represents the first book to investigate the transformations in contemporary xiqu's aesthetics from an intercultural perspectivePromotes Chinese theatre studies by joining it with international discoursesProblematises existing intercultural theories that focus on Western appropriations of the East